The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-03-05

neck, but l was we'll repaid for my
trouble by finding a building at
least $50 feet in length, six stories
in height in the front and from four
to six rooms deep into the cliff.
This seems to have been a chiefs
house, or perhaps a Pan-Electric
director or perhaps Doodle alder
man. The rooms were finely. plas-
tered with gypsum, which had a
beautiful pink cast. In one room
were stone lasts, rudely shaped, but
after the fashion of the shoemaker's
last of to-day. Another room had
arrow heads, stone axes and hatch
cts. There are also two weaving
rooms. In one there is rude kind
of loom, in the other shuttles and
other implements for weaving; but
as l do not understand weaving as
we'll as the ancients, / cannot de-
scribe them. / found specimens of
cloth resembling coarse linen. AT
one time / found a chicken-hOuse
with roosts for chickens. | also
found jugs of pottery made to re-
semble our white mountain quail,
and think perhaps that mountain
quail was one time the domestic
fowl of these people.
THE sMOKE-HOUsE.
There is also a room in which.
venison has been smoked. Every
building has round watertank,
from ten to fifteen feet across, and
the larger buildings as many as
three. The tanks vary in depth
from five to ten feet. The kitchens
Of these buildings seem to have
been built weaker than any other
part, as they have nearly all tum-
bled down, while the other parts of
the building are strong. There are
bushels Of broken pottery in the
parts fallen down, and / naturally
supposed them to be kitchens. |
never found a building in which
the kitchen was standing, but | do
not doubt but there are some of
them left standing. If one could
be found that had not fallen, | think
there could be great deal of pot
terry found. In every ruin could
be found corn-cobs and husks,
souash-rinds, bone knives and Gu
rious articles that could not make
out for what use they were intended.
There are one or more granarles
connected with every building.
They have doors and windows in
which slabs Of slate are fitted to
such nicely that mouse could
never get into them. There are
also cellars in which found large
Jars covered with smooth, flat stones.
What they contained | can only
surmise.
The buildings were heated with
a rude kind of furnace, passage
way built of stone and cement in
side, running the full length of the
lower floor, as | supposed for carry
ing heat to different apartments.
The walls in some places are COW
cred with paintings, in which red
colors predominant. Pictures OF
men, women, animals and birds.
There is one cliff about thirty
feet square, on which are the pic
lures of various birds. That of the
stork is the most numerous and is
a faithful copy of that bird. | have
been in this section several years
and have never seen a stork, and 1t
has probably been many years since
that bird inhabited this country. l
think that this shows that this Sec
ton which is now SO dry, must
have been wet at the time it was
inhabited by the cliff-dwellers. An
other picture is that of man with
the head of dog or wolf. He is
always leading men and women by
the hand. 1t is picture identical
with that of Anubis of the Egyp-
tians, who, if my memory serves
me Alright, was supposed to be con
nected with the reign of Sirius OF
the dog-star, and to have an evil
influence on the people during his
reign. Was not the stork one Of
the sacred birds of Egypt?